In previous economic downturns, Americans had lived on farms, but in the Great Depression, due to living in the city, the jobless had no money for ______ or ________ where one could grow food.
What is food and land?
100
Industry and agriculture experienced this as a sign of economic collapse
What is a decline or economic downturn?
100
FDR did this to as a strategy to restore consumer confidence in banks
What are fireside chats?
100
The Supreme Court did this to the NRA
What is declare it unconstitutional?
100
By the end of the Depression, more women were ________________ the home than from the beginning?
What is outside the home?
200
People would build communities of rundown shacks called this
What are Hoovervilles?
200
One of the main causes of the stock market crash of the Great Depression was this practice of buying stock
What is margin buying?
200
This organization worked in national parks, forests, wilderness and countryside areas to employ millions of young men.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
200
FDR attempted to do this to supreme court justices who opposed his New Deal policies
What is "pack the court"?
200
Women would do these things in order to save money during the Great Depression
What is sew clothes, can fruits or bake bread?
300
Many men would do one of two things when they failed to find work
What is quit or desert their families?
300
The event on October 29th, 1929 where the stock market had completely crashed overnight
What is Black Tuesday
300
Keeping prices stable, boosting employment and buying power was a part of this agencies job
What is the National Recovery Administration?
300
This California doctor called for a pension plan that eventually lead to the Social Security Act
Who is Francis Townsend?
300
During the Great Depression, this expression was often used to describe the situation of black employment
What is last to get hired and first to get fired?
400
This many rural children did not attend school during the Great Depression
What is 1 million?
400
A major cause of the Great Depression where the supply of the manufactured goods exceeds the demand
What is overproduction?
400
Huey Long proposed this plan as a solution to the Great Depression
What is the "Share Our Wealth" plan?
400
This singer was refused a performance for the Daughters of the American Revolution, but compensated with one outside of the Lincoln Memorial by Eleanor Roosevelt
Who is Marian Anderson?
500
The unemployment rate in the United States had changed from 3% to this percentage rate during the Depression
What is 25%?
500
Many companies and banks were forced into this after debts had been defaulted and sales declined rapidly
What is bankruptcy?
500
These two measurements helped to reform the economic system by creating transparency in the stock market and guaranteeing depositors $2,500
What is the Truth-in Securities Act and the Federal Deposit Insurance Coropration?
500
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500
Many Mexican citizens and Mexican-American citizens were removed from the United States by this method because whites wanted their jobs